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Frosted glass..

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August 20, 2012
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Hello everyone!

How can i make frosted glass effect like a independent layer, which i can use with any picture. It should look like smart object with smart filter, but i won't convert every picture to smart object, because my psd documend include many picture. Anyway i will be able to use this filter on any place for every picture.

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Des7

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This seems rather simple, unless I missed something so I'm not sure why people are saying it can't be done. Make a cool looking frosted glass effect with methods others mentioned above but make sure the background is transparent and the layer's white areas are blank, not actually white. Then, save it as a PNG-24 file with transparency. Those can handle variable transparency so for any future projects you want to overlay it on, just open that PNG file, select all, copy, and paste it overtop the other file as the top layer. If you can't end up with anything other than an image with a bunch of white instead of mostly transparent, you can just do everything I said previously but then change the layer blending method to overlay or possibly others.

c.pfaffenbichler

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This seems rather simple, unless I missed something so I'm not sure why people are saying it can't be done. Make a cool looking frosted glass effect with methods others mentioned above but make sure the background is transparent and the layer's white areas are blank, not actually white.

I seem to expect something different than you from a »frosted glass«-effect, namely it affecting the underlying image in more ways than brightness, color or blending with other pixel content.

But as the OP has not provided an example of what they expect your approach might fit their expectations after all.

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4GoodApp

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hello,

I found this topic while searching for a way to do this exactely but with Adobe Fireworks, anyways, can you tell me please how to add that layer on any image using Photoshop or Fireworks (if possible) please?

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JustHaterAuthor

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Thanks all for replying! And sorry for my language..:)

c.pfaffenbichler ,R.Kelly ...yes i may many layers, but i've big poster, and i can't merge and convert all layers, and i want moving this fragment of frosted glass on all surface of the poster.

Noel But it's not hard for Adobe to make some tools like a Adjustment layer, simple layer with some filters, which applying effect for layers under itself.

c.pfaffenbichler

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Noel But it's not hard for Adobe to make some tools like a Adjustment layer, simple layer with some filters, which applying effect for layers under itself.

You would appear to be wrong.

As mentioned above Adjustment Layers work pixel for pixel and can therefore operate relatively fast.

Filters can produce results for each pixel that are dependent on huge numbers of other pixels and are therefore more calculation-intensive. (Edit: Or rather »can be«, naturally a Filter can also operate on a pixel by pixel basis.)

Edit:

http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/non_destructive_filter_layers_instead_of_smart_filters

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Des7

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Chris Cox wrote:
You don't use the word panacea, but you seem to think that GPUs solve all ills, which defines panacea.

For heaven's sake, man!

I've explicitly stated that I do not think that GPUs are a panacea. I used the damned word PANACEA when stating that I do not regard GPUs as a panacea.

How can I make it any clearer that I do not think GPUs are a panacea?

Dunno how this got to be about GPUs but why not? To run code on a GPU, you have to rewrite the function or whole filter or whatever to be sent to and accept reply info from the GPU which is double the code. Then, you have to figure out the most optimized way to run it through the vastly different CPU structure. You know, like how most of several hundred cores. There's multithreaded coding for like 2-4 cores and then there's splitting up data over hundreds of cores and finishing it all at once in like a quarter second total.

Then there's rewriting old code from scratch. Like the reduce noise filter. GPUs don't typically take pixels, compare them to ones next to them, make a decision, then calculate a modification. A desktop CPU specializes in that. So to get that written as GPU code is scary. That time could be better used making better, smarter filters and stuff. So I can wait for my i5 to do a reduce noise for 3 seconds instead of 100ms

So yeah, they're a bit far from sending every single operation in every layer to the GPU to improve performance under the circumstances I'm hearing complaints about.

Noel Carboni

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The short answer is that you can't, at least not exactly as you've stated. That said, there's no reason to think that a filter or some other series of steps can't be found or assigned to a function key that would allow you to create the effect easily on whatever image document you have open.

It sounds, though, like what you're hoping for is some kind of magic mixture of layer contents, blending mode, and layer styles that will give you the effect when that layer is pasted over the top of anything else, and I don't believe that's possible.

-Noel

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

How can i make frosted glass effect like a independent layer,

Basically you can’t (if you and I have similar assumptions on what the effect should look like, posting an example might help clarify).

Adjustment Layers affect each pixel on its own, so I think at least one Filter application is necessary.

Your reasoning for not using a Smart Filter seems unclear to me; if by »many pictures« you mean many Layers those could be converted to one SO.

Jeff Arola

Community Expert

If the Filter>Distort>Glass gives the effect you want, you can use Layer>Smart Objects>Replace Contents to insert a different photo

while keeping the effect.

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